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Mezey, Robert. Lovemaker: Poems by Robert Mezey. Cummington Press/Iowa City, IA, 1961.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light wear to covers. DJ is worn and has a stain on the back panel.
Seller: Table of Contents, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Mezey, Robert. The Lovemaker. The Cummington Press, 1961, 1961.
Price: US$12.10 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Excessive wear and tear to the jacket.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Mezey, Robert. The Lovemaker. The Cummington Press, 1961, 1961.
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.
Seller: Broad Street Books, Branchville, NJ, U.S.A.
Robert Mezey. The Lovemaker. Cummington Press, 1961.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ISBN . Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No dustjacket; bound in maroon boards with white lettering to the spine. Very Good condition copy with minor wear to corners of boards at top and base of spine; previous owner's name/address at top left corner of front pastedown; previous owner's name at top edge of first endpaper; minor browning to endpapers; slight dustsoiling throughout; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked.
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Mezey, Robert. The Lovemaker. Cummington Press, Iowa City, 1961.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 72pp. Very good hardback in a lightly soiled and tanned jacket.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
MEZEY, ROBERT. The Lovemaker Poems. Cummington Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1961.
Price: US$19.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
MEZEY, Robert. The Lovemaker. The Cummington Press, Iowa City, 1961.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in about very good dustwrapper with soiling and a stain on the front panel. One of 2500 copies. Author's first hardcover collection of poetry. Winner of the Lamont Prize for 1960.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MEZEY, Robert. The Lovemaker. The Cummington Press, Iowa City, 1961.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Endpapers a little toned, near fine in very good dustwrapper with age-toning at the extremities. One of 2500 copies. Author's first hardcover collection of poetry. Winner of the Lamont Prize for 1960.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Mezey, Robert. The Lovemaker. The Cummington Press, 1961, 1961.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First edition Near fine brown boards with crisp text throughout.
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Mezey, Robert. The Lovemaker Poems. The Cummington Press, Iowa City, IA, 1961.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the author on the title page. Inscribed by the author (using first name only) on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Robert Mezey. The Lovemaker (poems). The Cummington Press, 1961.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition hardback book (72 pages) this was poet Robert Mezey's first published book of poems. Limited to 2500 copies. Dust jacket shows wear with light browning/toning - small tears at top edge. Bookseller since 1995 (ULG2-L-TS-Down) rareviewbooks
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Mezey, Robert. The lovemaker. The Cummington Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1961.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 2500 copies, 8vo, pp. 72; title page drawing by Mary Sims; slight skewing of the binding, slight rubbing; a very good copy in original maroon cloth stamped in white on spine, without the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. Winner of the Lamont Poetry prize in 1960.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Mezey, Robert; Robert Mezey (Author). The Lovemaker. The Cummington Press, Iowa City, IA, 1961.
Price: US$29.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 72 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
MEZEY, Robert. The Lovemaker. The Cummington Press, Iowa City, 1961.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Offsetting from complimentary slip to front endpapers, else fine in very good dustwrapper with soiling and a short tear on the front panel. One of 2500 copies. Author's first hardcover collection of poetry. Winner of the Lamont Prize for 1960.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MEZEY, Robert. The Lovemaker. The Cummington Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1961.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. A bit of light offsetting on the endleaves else fine in a toned and modestly soiled, very good dust jacket with a tiny creased tear on the lower panel. One of 2,500 copies printed. Publisher's complimentary copy for the 1960 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets laid in (stating that 1000 copies of this book were distributed to members of The Academy). Mezey's first hardcover collection of poems, preceded only by a pamphlet.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Mezey, Robert. THE LOVEMAKER. , 1961.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 1961 Mezey, Robert THE LOVEMAKER Iowa City: The Cummington Press, 1961 1/2500cc 72pp 8vo Fine hardcover copy in VG+ d/w (spine panel and edges toned).
Seller: Columbia Books, ABAA/ILAB, MWABA, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Mezey, Robert. The Lovemaker. The Cummington Press, Iowa City, 1961.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, maroon cloth. One of 2500 copies in the edition. Loosely inserted is the announcement from the Academy of American Poets, identifying this as the Lamont Poetry selection for 1960. Fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
MEZEY, Robert. The Lovemaker. The Cummington Press, Iowa City, 1961.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Endpapers slightly tanned, else fine in age-toned, very good or better dustwrapper. One of 2500 copies. Author's first hardcover collection of poetry. Signed by the author. Winner of the Lamont Prize for 1960.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Mezey, Robert.. THE LOVEMAKER.. The Cummington Press: Iowa City, 1961.
Price: US$109.25 + shipping
Description: 8.75 x 5.75, cloth, 72 pp, end papers yellowed else ok in yellowed, spotted and slightly torn dw. FIRST ED, LIMITED TO 2500 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO A FRIEND. ALSO PRESENT ARE 7 CARBON COPY TYPESCRIPTS OF POEMS (unfortunately on acid paper).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.